Harold Wager

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Harold William Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist.{{cite journal|title=obit. Dr. Harold Wager, F.R.S.|journal=Nature|date=21 Dec 1929|volume=124|pages=953–954|doi=10.1038/124953a0|issue=3138|doi-access=free}} He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904.{{cite magazine|title=WAGER, Harold W. T.|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=1812|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1812}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27Wager%27%29|title=Wager; Harold William Taylor (1862–1929)|accessdate=4 March 2011}} He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1910{{cite book|title=Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists|author=Desmond, Ray|year=1994|page=708|isbn=0-85066-843-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0-85066-843-3}} and again in 1919.{{cite journal|title=Presidential address. The significance of sex and nuclear fusion in the fungi.|journal=Trans. British Mycol. Soc.|volume=6|year=1920|pages=305–17}}

Wager was first a lecturer in botany at the Yorkshire College, then at Victoria University, then later he took the role of an Inspector of Schools for the Board of Education.{{cite web|url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27EC%2F1904%2F15%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl|title=Certificates of Election and Candidature|accessdate=4 March 2011}}